AIM To characterise the prevalence of burnout syndrome in a sample of family doctors (FDs) working in the Portuguese National Health System. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Primary healthcare centres from the 18 continental districts and two archipelagos of Portugal. METHOD The Portuguese version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey was sent to 40 randomly selecte...

PURPOSE Because of the high prevalence of burnout among medical students and its association with professional and personal consequences, the authors evaluated the help-seeking behaviors of medical students with burnout and compared their stigma perceptions with those of the general U.S. population and age-matched individuals. METHOD The authors surveyed students at six medical schools in 201...

BACKGROUND Burnout among healthcare professionals is one of the key challenges affecting health care practice and quality of care. This systematic review aims to (1) estimate the prevalence of burnout among health care professionals (HCP) in Arab countries; and (2) explore individual and work-related factors associated with burnout in this population. METHODS Multiple electronic databases wer...

BACKGROUND Residents frequently encounter situations in their workplace that may induce moral distress or burnout. The objective of this study was to measure overall and rotation-specific moral distress and burnout in medical residents, and the relationship between demographics and moral distress and burnout. METHODS The revised Moral Distress Scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Human Se...

This paper reports on the relationship between dimensions of control (skill discretion and decision authority) and burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment) among 164 human service workers. It examines the diVerential in ̄ uence of job demands, control (skill discretion and decision authority) and social support (supervisor, co-workers, others) on eac...

CONTEXT Burnout is a known problem among physicians in training but has not been extensively studied in osteopathic residents. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship of burnout to sex, age, marital status, and residency program type (surgical vs nonsurgical) and length (3, 4, 5, or 6 years) across 12 residency programs at Doctors Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. METHODS An anonymous, voluntary q...

Article history: Received 17 June 2015 Received in revised form 2 January 2016 Accepted 5 January 2016 Available online 15 January 2016 We examined whether burnout is associated with a depressive cognitive style, understood as a combination of dysfunctional attitudes, ruminative responses, and pessimistic attributions. A total of 1386 U.S. public school teachers were included—1063 women (MAGE: ...

Correspondence: Arnold B. Bakker, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, PO Box 80.140, Utrecht 3508 TC, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected] BAKKER A.B. , LE BLANC P.M. & SCHAUFELI W.B. (2005) Journal of Advanced Nursing 51(3), 276–287 Burnout contagion among intensive care nurses Aim. This paper reports a study investigating whether burnout is contagiou...

Acute health care environments can be stressful settings with clinicians experiencing deleterious effects of burnout and compassion fatigue affecting their mental health. Subsequently, the quality of patient care and outcomes may be threatened if clinicians experience burnout or compassion fatigue. Therefore, the aim of this descriptive, cross-sectional study was to evaluate the prevalence of b...

BACKGROUND The 2011 US Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandates reaffirm the need to design residency schedules to augment patient safety and minimise resident fatigue. OBJECTIVES To evaluate which elements of the residency schedule were associated with resident burnout and fatigue and whether resident burnout and fatigue were associated with lower perceived quali...